Well of Moses
by Claus SLUTER

Sluter executed at the end of the fourteenth century a large fountain (called Well of Moses) in the Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse de Champmol). The monastery was intended to be the burying place of the Prince of Burgundy, Philip the Bold and his family. The monastery was destroyed during the French revolution, but the hexagonal base with the figures of the six prophets who had foreseen the death of Christ on the Cross (Moses, David, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Daniel and Isaiah) survived.


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Well of Moses
1395-1406
Stone, height 183 cm
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses
1395-1406
Stone, height 183 cm
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Prophets Daniel and Isaiah
1395-1406
Stone, height 183 cm
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Prophets Daniel and Isaiah
1395-1406
Stone, height 183 cm
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Prophets David and Jeremiah
1395-1406
Stone, height 179 cm
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Moses
1395-1406
Stone
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Moses (detail)
1395-1406
Stone
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Prophets David and Jeremiah
1395-1406
Stone
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Prophet David (King David)
1395-1406
Stone
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Angel
1395-1406
Stone
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Prophet Jeremiah (detail)
1395-1406
Stone
Musée Archéologique, Dijon


Well of Moses: Christ (fragment)
1395-1406
Limestone, height 64 cm
Musée Archéologique, Dijon





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